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Title: The stranger's illustrated pocket guide to Philadelphia, embracing a description of the principal objects of interest in and around the city, with directions how to reach them
Year: 1876 (1870s)
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Subjects: Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.)
Publisher: Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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. 2000 Norris. l800 Moore. 2100 Diamond. 19OO Mifflin. 2200 Susquehanna Avenue. 2000 McKean. 2300 Dauphin. 2100 Snyder. 2400 York. 2200 Jackson. 2500 Cumberland. 23OO Wolf. 2600 Huntingdon. 24OO Ritner. 2700 Lehigh Avenue. 2500 Porter. 2800 Somerset. 2600 Shunk. 2900 Cambria. 27OO Oregon Aven 3000 Indiana. 2800 Johnson. 3100 Clearfield. 29OO Bigler. 3200 Allegheny Avenue. 3000 Pollock. 3100 Packer. (Copyright, 1876.) 3200 Curtin. PREFACE. The design of this little work, as stated in its title, is toafford a convenient guide to the principal objects of interestin and around Philadelphia, with directions as to the mostavailable methods by which the different points can bereached. To render the work easy of reference, an alphabeticalarrangement of subjects or general heads has been adopted,under which may be found the special subjects, also arrangedin alphabetical order. It is believed that the work leaves little to be desired inthe way of a convenient guide to the city and surroundings.
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THE STRANGERS ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO PHILADELPHIA. ACADEMY OP FINE ARTS. The new building of the Pennsylvania Academy of Pine Arts, recently opened, is situated at the southwest corner of Broad and CherryStreets, having a front on Broad Street of one hundred feet, with adepth on Cherry Street of two hundred and sixty feet. The structureis fireproof, of brick and stone, in the Venetian style of architecture.Commodious class- and lecture-rooms furnish ample accommodations tostudents, to whom gratuitous instruction is given in the various branchesof art, and spacious galleries lighted from the ceilings afford excellentopportunities for exhibiting to the best advantage the art treasures ofthe Academy. Of the many attractive institutions of Philadelphia, fewbetter repay a visit than this. To visitors it is accessible from thenorthern section of the city by the cars on Thirteenth Street and onSeventeenth Street, passing near the Academy at Cherry or ArchStreet; from the west by the Race Stree

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